Wife of Amish school shooter speaks out for first time

For the first time, the widow of Amish school shooter Charlie Roberts is speaking out on camera.

Marie Roberts Monville, who will release a book later this year, and her publishing company just released a video. In it, she talks about the day her then husband Charlie killed five girls and took his own life.

The highly produced video is meant to introduce Monville to the world.

Sitting on a Victorian style setee, Monville, who has since remarried, looks into the camera and recalls telling her three children about the tragedy.

The almost five-minute video on YouTube was edited from a two-and-a-half hour interview. It was taped in December at Penn Manor Middle School in Lancaster County. Director producer Dean Sell says he worked on the project as a favor to his friend, Marie. He says she wanted to be able to tell the story she wanted to tell.

Monville now has a website and a blog. She has a book due out in October near the seventh anniversary of the school shooting.

More of the interview will be used as part of what publisher Zondervan calls a robust publicity campaign for the book.

The publisher says Monville will be available for interviews. Up until now, she has declined requests, including from News 8, for an interviews.

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